Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/106561
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 8629
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper investigates how a reform allowing immigrants with children in France access to public housing during the 1970s influenced their initial location choices across local labour markets. We find that cities with higher public housing supplies have a large 'magnetic effect' on the location choice. The estimated effect is substantial and quantitatively similar to the effect of the size of the ethnic group in the urban area. In cities with higher public housing supply, these immigrants tend to benefit from better housing conditions, but non-European immigrants are also more likely to be unemployed.
Subjects: 
public housing
social housing
immigration
location choice
JEL: 
J15
R50
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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